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Finnish phonemeaker Nokia has announced that it will acquire the privately-held, Chicago-based Novarra, makers of the Vision mobile browser and server platform. "By driving innovation in all segments of our portfolio, we are building one of the largest consumer audiences for web services and content," said NokiaEVP for service …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    sharpens vision ...

    not sure it's quite appropriate to speak of "vision" and "nokia" on the same subject.

    how many acquisitions they've made and each time it was seen as a vision. vision my a**

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    Brand vision blurred

    Out here on the left coast of the USA, 'Novarra' is a line of bicycles and associated bicycling gear marketed by a large retailer named REI (Recreational Equipment Incorporated).

    Maybe if my new phone/bicycle came with absolutely awesome GPS I would take a second look. Otherwise ... meh...

    Blurred vision... hence the thick eyeglasses...

    1. walkermore

      walkermore

      sounds good to me

  3. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Transcoding the truth?

    Anybody remember the chaos caused by Novarra in UK by deploying their snake oil?

    http://eu.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/vodafone-in-mobile-web-storm/

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Opera pre-bundled?

    Why Nokia doesn't get it over with and simply pre-bundle Opera Mini or Opera Mobile to have a world-class browser ASAP on every Nokia phone, is beyond me. They look slow & indecisive...the iPhone came out in June 2007...! Sheesh.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Headmaster

      re Opera pre-bundled?

      They do pre install Opera Mini on lots of their phones (6124, 6210 6303, 6600, 6730, 6760, 6770, 7100, 7230, 7510, 8800, E51, E52, E65, E66, E71, E72, N73, N78, N80, N81, N85, N93, N96, N97. X3, X6, ETC) but presumably not for much longer ...

    2. Tom Chiverton 1

      Umm

      The N900 does indeed bundle FireFox (renamed to MicroB)...

  5. RegisterThis
    Megaphone

    Negativitiy of Nokia not totally founded ...

    Taking a look at IDC figures, Nokia lost market share overall from '08 to '09 for smartphones, but certainly grew market share in Q3 and Q4 '09.

    In fact, both RIM and Nokia gained market share in Q4 '09 at Apple's expense - so clearly the 20.8M Nokia smartphone buyers and the 10.7M RIM buyers must be deluded not to have swelled the ranks of the 7.4M iPhone buyers!

    I think Apple have a superb product, but it is not without its faults and not everybody wants a million apps on their phone - some of us spend most of the day on calls and emails and not playing with infotainment - and in that case there are some cracking alternatives with decent mechanical qwerty keyboards and batteries that don't need 'mommying' and great prodcutivity functionality around communications whose only fault is using a D-Pad and not a touch-screen! (In some cases even fewer 'clicks' than the iPhone! ... just not as pretty!)

    Just as being a 1 product (phone) vendor is to Apple's benefit in terms of innovation, marketing, focus etc., it is also its challenge as its iPhone has 'a market' segment (contrained by needs, budgets and perferences) and will need to 're-invent' itself with a new model to keep this market share whereas RIM and Nokia can offer many different alternatives to cater to different needs, budgets and wants.

    What I get tired of is the (mainly US where Nokia has had very low market share) analysis that says that Apples success and products represent an 'objective' industry benchmark of what handset manufacturers should do. Personally I would be pretty annoyed if Nokia changed some of its functionality in my current handset 'just to be like Apple' ... likewise, if Apple stuck a qwerty keyboard on a device and gave it a decent/replaceable battery, I would consider changing.

  6. Mashiara

    N900 is not the flagship device

    Of course the N900 is neither the flagship device (N97 is) or a smartphone, it's a mobile computer.

    Now because it has a GSM chip for net access it can make and receive phone calls (and SMS) too, but it does not mean it's primary purpose is to be a phone (and based on the very basic phone functionality it definitely isn't, not that I care, I like the way it is...)

    <joke>ps. MMS is for w*nkers</joke>

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